The Alberta NDP appointed the State Comptroller General to Chief Medical Officer for Health Deena Hinshaw, Ph.D. and other managers for work related to COVID. Asking to Investigate Paid Bonuses - 19 Pandemic.
Hinshaw received a record bonus of almost $228,000 last year on top of his regular salary of over $591,000. This is the highest cash benefit paid to a state employee since the list was published six years before her.
In a letter to Auditor General Doug Wylie on Monday, financial commentator Shannon Phillips called for a performance audit of bonus payment structures and processes related to the COVID-19 pandemic response. I requested.
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Phillips also conducted a performance audit of the behavior of former Treasury Minister Travis Touse. Toews denied authorizing the payment in a tweet last Wednesday.
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I have not accepted or authorized this payment. This bonus was paid by the public service without ministerial approval.
Albertans expect their tax dollars to be used with the utmost scrutiny. I promised to change the rules so that something like this never happens again. https://t.co/cGc18RpDgi— Travis Toews (@ToewsforAlberta) August 3, 2022
But Phillips said he had ministerial authority over the Alberta Public Service Commission'sSupplemental or Special Services Compensation Directive, which was approved in March of this year, making it "unbelievable."
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This Directive sets standards and approaches for lump-sum payments for ununionized civil servants, including managers. Outlined.
The directive was approved and reviewed in March, although he was not posted on the Alberta government website in February, according to the Alberta NDP.
"For many Albertans, including cabinet members and caucus members who have served on the finance committee, MLA Toews' claims are incredulous," he wrote in a Monday letter.
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for big COVID-19 bonus to Hinshaw, letter says payments will reopen public sector, Hinshaw and government handling of pandemic
Alberta's NDP leader Rachel Notley said last Wednesday that the United Conservative Party must take responsibility and influence for the payment to Hinshaw.
Unions, including the Alberta Civil Service Union, also condemned the payments, considering the government cut salaries and jobs in frontline health care.
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Also in government, he is Minister of Finance, and certainly shows that he does not have a business that does not lead the government. "Determined using manager's formula based on additional working hours."
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"Given the scale of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has required a tremendous amount of additional work from Alberta's top public health physicians," Buick said in a statement last Monday. .
– Using files from Dean Bennett of The Canadian Press.
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